Ethiopian Livestock Feeds Project Synthesis Meeting

28-29 May 2012
Addis Ababa

FEAST SWOT

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Strengths

• first such tool
• 'farmer problems; farmer solutions'
• good to facilitate discussion/participation
• helps identify problems and farmer solutions
• adaptable across livestcok value chains? (PRA)
• captures livelihood issues
• it's rapid (less farmer time)
• it is systematic
• offers an opportunity to educate farmers
• offers a comprehensive discussion guide

Weaknesses

• individual sample size is too small/farmer
• it is knowledge intensive (needs experts)
• productivity parameters limited to milk?
• allows data input from a max of 6 individuals?
• lack of clarity on spatial scale
• when presenting, people perhaps overlook the PRA results in favour of the excel charts

Opportunities to use

• needs to be adapted to pigs/small ruminants value chains
• can be used to capture past development activities and scope/successes/failures; potential linkages
• could collect larger individual data through group facilitation (farmers facilitated to fill individual questions)
• enhanced promotion and training on the tool (especially development partners)
• relate constraints to production factors